Paradise sig. Kiiiiv

To tosse the Seas some thinkes a toyle, (20) Some thinke it straunge abroad to rome, Some thinke it griefe to leaue their soyle Their parentes, kinsfolkes, and their home. Thinke so who listlike , I like it not, I must abroad to trye my Lottlot, chance .

(25)WhoUUho lust at home at carte to drudge And carcke and careto burden oneself with care, to labour anxiously for worldly trashe: with buckled shooe let him goe trudge, In stead of launce a whip to swash. A minde thats base himselfe will showe, (30) A carrion sweete to feede a Crowe,

If Iason of that minde had binne, Or wandring Prince +Either Paris or Odysseus that came from Greece. The golden fleece had binne to winne, And Pryams Troy had byn in blisse, (35) Though dead in deedes and clad in clay, Their woorthie Fame will nere decay.

The worthies nyne that weare of mightes, By trauaile wanne immortall prayse: If they had liued like Carpet knightes, +A term of contempt for a knight whose achievements are confined to ‘the carpet’, a lady’s bedchamber or carpeted chamber, play, and amusement, instead of the battlefield. (40) (Consuming ydely) all their dayes, Their prayses had with them bene dead, where now abroad their Fame is spread.